§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the number of people aged 25 years or under living in the York parliamentary constituency who(a) were registered unemployed and (b) had been registered unemployed for six months or more in each month since March 1992. [13582]
§ Mrs. Angela KnightThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the chief executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Hugh Bayley, dated 3 February 1997:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply as the Director of the Office for National Statistics to your recent question on claimant unemployment in your constituency.A complete count of the total number of claimant unemployed by age and duration is available quarterly, for the months of January, April, July and October. For other months, age and duration data are restricted to those claimants whose records have been computerised (about 99.5 per cent of the total). In each case the data are not seasonally adjusted, nor do they make allowances for discontinuities in the count.All this information can be accessed from the Nomis database held by the House of Commons Library.